Darrin Turner Has played with bands such as Counterfeit, The Twigs, Mr. Clean Hand, Brownston Blues Band, The Hard Nocks Band, High Lonesome and is currently with MIdnight Son's. He has shared the stage with Otis Watkins, Neil Zaza, Gilby Clarke and Rick Derringer.
Darrins amp has an interesting story. He acquired a Fender Custom Shop Two -Tone on the day I was meeting him at the shop to start planning his new amp build and decided to bring it along to show me. As I walked in to the store, Darrin and a few others were standing around the Two-Tone laughing and there was a hint of an o-zone smell and light smoke in the air. What I had missed by mere minutes was the amp going up in smoke as Darrin was playing through it. It sounded as if I had missed quite a sizzling display of fireworks.
So.....we pulled the chassis and tossed it up on the bench. After discovering that it was nothing more than a standard off the shelf Blues Jr. in a fancy cabinet, we found the following hole burned in the PCB.
After I had repaired the area of the not so flameproof 1/4 watt chassis shorting resistor(where at least a 1/2 watt should have been) and continued to manually wire the PCB back together we fired it up. The amp had it's original tone back but was anything but quiet with all the sizzle and pop you would expect from an 1/8th inch thick PCB with a hole partially burned through multiple traces. And so it was..........Darrin had his parts project for his new amp and he opted for my Bristol circuit. When he shopwed up to pick up his new baby, I asked him if he wanted any of the pulled original parts(transformers, board, pots, sockets, speakers etc). He replied by taking a lighter to what was left of the board but I stopped him short of an actual fire.
On a more serious note, The Red Fang and Weber 10F150 worked extremely well in the amp. I'll be doing more 12x10's in the future for sure. Sound samples coming soon.
With my latest Reli'que Strat
Darrin's "Custom Shop For Sure" Two-Tone Bristol 15 Specifications
Power Output: 15 watts
Chassis: Heaviliy modified original Blues Jr
Circuit Board - Handwired G10 epoxy resin board, tinned brass eyelets
Capacitors: JJ Multisection can,Sprague 715 OD, CDE silver Mica coupling and tone caps
Resistors: Carbon comp, metal film and metal oxide power resistors throughout
Sockets: Ceramic and Belden chassis mount
Potentiometers: Alpha
Switches: Carling
Jacks: Switchcraft
Output Tubes: 2- JJ 6BQ5/EL84
Preamp Tubes: 3 - JJ ECC83/12AX7
Rectifier: JJ GZ34
Transformers: Custom Wound British
Channels: 1
Controls: Input, Master Volume, Treble, Middle, Bass, Volume
Cabinet: Fingerjointed solid white pine
Speakers: 12" Eminence Red Fang and 10" WeberVST 10F150
Notes: Led power indicator installed in the reverb control hole, Chassis is near max capacity with "real" transformers installed.
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